Do you worry about Firefox policy change?

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  • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org
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    25 days ago

    Just an fyi, if Firefox is shut down then so is Librewolf and literally every other fork. People don’t seem to understand this…

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      24 days ago

      Then it’s KHTML then I guess. Written from the ground up, so good Apple used it to create WebKit. Or Ladybird when it gets done. Or the several forks could pool their resources into a foundation to keep developing the core of their products. Or another institution adopts the project (Linux Foundation, etc.).

      What you don’t understand is that Mozilla doesn’t hold us in captivity and there are zero reasons to bend to their bullshit. If they die, they die.

      • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org
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        24 days ago

        Bruh, you’re being extremely optimistic that Mozilla going down won’t kill forks. Take librewolf for example. It’s like 1 dev or something. No way that dude is gonna maintain security fixes and stuff on his own. That takes an entire full-time paid dev team. Ladybird I’ve heard about for ages, however who the hell knows when/if that would be viable and maintained on its own. Could difference projects pool resources and maintain it together? Yea, sure it could. Is that guaranteed or likely to happen any time soon? Fuck no.

        Bottom line is Mozilla going bye bye would almost guarantee the deaths of all forks. To think otherwise is naive.

        • Colloidal@programming.dev
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          24 days ago

          If they die, they die.

          Or I could quote the whole of my previous comment. Pretend it’s an English reading comprehension exam and you have to determine the author’s arguments.